SIDS and Safe Sleeping Practices

Description:

This lesson discusses Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It discusses safe sleeping practices to prevent SIDS and other sleep-related injuries and deaths. This lesson also addresses the types of cribs, bedding, and accessories safe to use in a child care environment.

Objectives:

RECALL causes, statistics, and risk factors of SIDS.

RECALL recommended safe sleep practices for prevention of sleep-related injury and death.

IDENTIFY cribs, bedding, and accessories safe to use in an infant's sleep environment.